Evolution Quotes · Page 31

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

— Dean Ornish

In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

— Frederick Lenz

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.”

— Warren Ellis

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of…

— Wernher von Braun

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

— Walter Lang

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

— Anthony Standen

“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and…

— Hal Whitehead

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over…

— Richard Dawkins

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come…

— Frank B. Salisbury

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately…

— Richard Dawkins

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity,…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,…

— Richard Leakey

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the…

— Oliver Stone

“I’ll be hanged if I can understand how it concerns Evolution to get us out of a mere scrape.” “Out of all…

— John Davidson

If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist…

— Katharine Hayhoe

So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface…

— John Desmond Bernal

“Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their…

— Richard Dawkins

“Far from being a homogenous "Big Science," biotechnology is highly diversified and heterogeneous. "The" human genome is not a single database, but…

— Eduardo Kac

This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

— Charles Darwin

“A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.”

— Anthony Marra

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

— Anonymous

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

When I was young I always used to play 'FIFA' or 'Pro Evolution Soccer' with my brother.

— Kai Havertz

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

— George Gaylord Simpson

“Bill Gates stated, “DNA is like a software program, only much more complex than anything we’ve ever devised.”

— Lee Vickers

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

— Charles Hard Townes

“From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!”

— rachel carson

It's awesome to see the evolution of the women's division in WWE.

— Peyton Royce

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

— Ray Comfort

Coming out of college, many of our analysts are steeped in genomic research.

— Cathie Wood

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

— Clarice Lispector